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Forbidden games, Moon crash, and more

Moon crash

The first phase of China’s lunar programme ended with a crash on Sunday. The country’s space agency halted the 16-month Chang’e 1 mission by sending the probe to the moon’s surface. The exercise provided data for the Chang’e 2 mission, which will land a lunar rover on the moon in 2011. The third phase, due for 2017, will try to bring back lunar samples.

Forbidden games

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, even when it is a game. Marije Nije Bijvank of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands asked children to rate 12 video games. Children given only descriptions …